Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

I can fully understand why they're wearing masks.

It's because they're just a couple of fellas doing their job, and if they didn't their faces would be all over social media alongside these false accusations of 'harassing' a woman.

I have a certain sympathy for a lot of people involved with the anti-immigration stuff. I think behind all the hatred there's a lot of lonely, unwell people that need to get help. But these 'citizen journalists' invading on people while they try to live their lives, or do their jobs, disgust me.

ironic thing is, its only at protests she wants them to be made illegal, so they can identify the people against government policy.

I also notice a complete lack of health and safety guidelines being followed in those tweets. So like Newtown and Clonmel before, seems Thornton Hall operators don't like to follow the rules either, although I'm not surprised tbh.

Don't want the authorities at home to know where they are.

We're told constantly "legal and moral obligations" as an excuse for this racket.

Yet they sweep aside the law with requirements for driving with number plates or security being identifiable.

Indeed they've dispensed with planning permission for these centres.

Though it remains if indigenous want to build a house.

Token amounts of people prosecuted for landing without a passport.

Selective enforcement of law.

It looks a lot like oppression. What else could you think of seeing the scenes at Dundrum, Tipperary?

Exactly, and we still have people thinking all this is happening to support asylum seekers. The amount of people calling rural protesters against these centers 'far right' is shocking but not surprising considering our history of blindly following our politicians and their media lackies.

There will be no consequences for the politicians and their cronies who are receiving all this tax payers money but all the people calling citizens far right are going to be in for a nasty surprise when the government tanks the economy again.

I don't know anyone on the thread who's in favour of maintaining current policies.

Personally I think we need to move IPAs to state owned accommodation as soon as possible and getting realistic about tackling the housing crisis.

What proportion of our population growth is due to IPAs?

i don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that approx 20k/annum asylum seekers, who now by law need non temporary accommodation after 3 months, isn't putting a strain on the housing market.

'Non temporary accommodation' is still not private housing or apartments, either owned or rented. Vast bulk of people in the country seeking accommodation are certainly not competing against asylum seekers for it.

Twenty thousand, minimum, this year. They may not be competing directly or personally against people want to rent or buy, but there will still be property taken out of the system to accommodate some of them. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded.